One such meeting was a September 2009 breakfast roundtable at the New York Stock Exchange with CEOs of companies that had lobbied Clinton’s State Department and sought favors from her.
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The missing entries raise new questions about how Clinton and her inner circle handled government records documenting her State Department tenure in this case, why the official chronology of her four-year term does not closely mirror other more detailed records of her daily meetings.
NEWS BRIEF Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state has been an ongoing controversy in the United States.
A copy of the exchange was included in a report by the State Department’s inspector general from last month, but was not part of the batch of 55,000 messages that Clinton was ordered to hand over. They compared the 1,500-page record of Clinton’s daily activities with planning schedules provided by aides prior to the events. More than 60 other events listed in Clinton’s planners were omitted entirely in her calendar, tersely noted or described only as “private meetings” – all without naming those who met with her.
Nick Merrill, spokesman for the Clinton campaign, told the AP that the discrepancies “simply reflect a more detailed version in one version as compared to another, all maintained by her staff”.
Clinton’s terse calendar entry on her 2009 private breakfast on Wall Street contains no details on what she and her 12 guests discussed.
“Contrary to her statement under oath suggesting otherwise, Mrs. Clinton did not return all her government emails to the State Department”, said Fitton in a statement. The AP obtained the records only after being forced to sue the State Department last March.
The Clinton campaign apparently assumes no one understands how email works, and that no one will care that Clinton signed documents, under oath, certifying that she had returned all work-related correspondence to the State Department. After noticing discrepancies between Clinton’s calendar and some schedules, the AP pressed in court for all of Clinton’s planning material.
The AP also reported that Clinton’s calendar “listed meetings with 124 business leaders and political donors and loyalists, but not with 114 others who were identified by the AP’s review”.
“Secretary Clinton had some emails with Huma that Huma did not have, and Huma had some emails with Secretary Clinton that Secretary Clinton did not have”, Clinton spokesperson Brian Fallon told the AP. As David Graham has noted, the former secretary of state’s time in the government and her ties to the Clinton Foundation have been a source of criticism about Clinton among Republicans, like her rival Donald Trump.
During testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi in October, Clinton was asked about 15 emails she exchanged with her longtime friend Sidney Blumenthal that she also failed to give the State Department.
The report then looked into whether the nature of Clinton’s constantly changing schedule could be partially to blame, but they found only seven meetings from the planning schedules were changed to substitute events on the official schedule. Some calendar entries were accompanied by Valmoro emails – indicating she may have added those entries. The Associated Press reports that Clinton did not, in fact, turn over a particularly controversial email involving the technical problems cause by her exclusive use of a private email server for work-related business, raising the possibility that Clinton may have deleted some work-related emails before releasing them under court order.
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